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Learn about the life and works of Paul Bowles, who settled in Tangier, Morocco, in 1947 and became associated with the Beat Generation. Explore his musical compositions, novels, short stories, and translations of Arabic literature.
Paul Bowles was an American composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories set in exotic and violent settings. He was a leading figure of the Beat Generation and a longtime resident of Tangier, Morocco, where he wrote his best-known work, The Sheltering Sky.
Nov 18, 1999 · Paul Bowles was a literary expatriate who lived in Tangiers and wrote novels, stories and travel essays. Explore his biography, ratings, reviews, quotes and books on Goodreads.
May 11, 2018 · Paul Theroux recounts his meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier and his impression of the novelist's life and work. He explores Bowles's themes of existentialism, nihilism, and travel in The Sheltering Sky, his first and most famous novel.
Paul Bowles has 144 books on Goodreads with 127599 ratings. Paul Bowles’s most popular book is The Sheltering Sky.
A documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal about the writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles, who lived in North Africa and wrote The Sheltering Sky. The film features rare interviews with Bowles and his friends, such as Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
Aug 30, 2009 · Paul Bowles’s first and best novel, “The Sheltering Sky,” published 60 years ago this fall, was a book few saw coming. Its author was better known as a composer.
